There are several HTML5 and .NET component suites out there that give you a framework to rapidly build applications. Some examples are http://sencha.com, http://kendoui.com, http://devexpress.com, http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax.aspx, and others.
Are there any good ones for iOS development? I found one from Telerik, but it only has 3 components at the moment: http://www.telerik.com/ios-ui. I was hoping for a bigger set and in Swift. Thanks for any help or direction.
CocoaPods has a good number (10K+ iOS) of components that can either be used with the CocoaPods integration or grab the code and integrate yourself.
Cocoa Controls is a website that features lots of UI components, many of which are open source.
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I have found so many facility to use javascript, Angular, material design ui with Electron App Framework, I would like to know, is there any possibilities to use ANT UI for my desktop application? At-least some work around.
Yes
The short answer is yes. Electron provides an entire NodeJS environment and allows you to use common Node, Javascript and React toolsets.
In fact, Electron is listed as an officially supported environment on their Github page.
That being said, it's a very diverse library so there might be occurrences where a particular component is not supported or might need tweaking to be compatible with the Electron environment.
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The company I work for actually had to do this for a project we're working on so I can officially confirm that it works great.
As you can probably guess, my knowledge of coding is very limited. Nonetheless, I do know a little Java. I have Eclipse and was wondering if I could use it to code for iOS iPhone/iPad applications. I know that I would almost certainly have to use a language other than Java, but I'm clueless as to what packages or plugins I would need to install in Eclipse to use it to code for iOS. If you guys could answer this question in extreme detail or link me to a very good sequence of video tutorials, I would be extremely grateful.
Yes you can!
If you can live with coding ActionScript, which should be easy to learn with a Java background, you can use Eclipse & AIR to code for iOS (and Android at the same time)
Some resources:
http://flex.apache.org/
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashruntimes/
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/
http://flashdaily.net/
Be aware that many apps in the store have been build on this platform, and the community is pretty alive and supportive.
The short answer is, "not natively."
Apple pretty much restricts "native" iOS development to XCode which, as #Bob said in his answer, is only available for OS X. So that means no Eclipse or Java-based development. However, there are several cross-platform development frameworks and tools that work to varying degrees of quality. Here are a few, in no particular order:
PhoneGap
Appcelerator
Corona
Adobe AIR (see answer by #dogsgod)
There are others, but those are ones that I've at least heard of and might have tried a little bit. Some, like Appcelerator, have IDEs built on Eclipse, so at least the dev environment would be familiar.
IOS apps are written in Objective-C or Swift using XCode. (This also means you'll need a Mac to do so. XCode is only available for OSX.)
So unfortunately this means the answer to your question is no. You cannot use Eclipse to write an iOS app.
I want to be able to use Scala to code iOS programs. Any tools available for this ?
You can run JavaScript on iOS, so you could compile your Scala to JavaScript using Scala.js. This has obvious huge limitations - I wouldn't want to try to code actual native iOS UI - but might be practical for some cross-platform logic. Combining this with React Native might be interesting.
There's also Scala Native as of a couple months ago; that should probably run on iOS. It's not ready for production use, but keep an eye on it.
Well, now you can use RoboVM - a Java library for native IOS development
See also:
an SBT plugin for RoboVM https://github.com/roboscala/sbt-robovm
A blog post aboute Scala development for IOS http://ajhager.com/
Not today, but it may be close:
http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-gets-java-running-ios
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overview/adf-mobile-096323.html
But, while Apple directly opposes the use of the JVM on iOS devices, it will make little sense to go that way (it's still early days). You will run into one obstacle after another, and won't have any guarantee that the code you write today, will run on the iOS of tomorrow.
Sit on the sideline with your Android, Ubuntu and popcorn, and let the big guys fight it out.
In the meantime.... you can write a thin front-end in PhoneGap (which works on most modern mobile devices), your services with Spray and have fun with your back-end in Scala.
I recently developed a toolchain based on IKVM and MonoTouch that allows you to develop iOS apps in Scala. I put together a demo of the toolchain here:
https://github.com/samskivert/ios-scala-demo
Currently Codename One doesn't have builtin support for Scala but it supports Kotlin reasonably well. There is a blog post here that covers the process of adapting Codename One to support other JVM languages. By doing that you can instantly get support for other platforms such as iOS, UWP, JavaScript/Web, Android & desktop mac/windows for free.
The core of Codename One which includes the VM's, API's and most of the tools is open source.
I had a look at Appcelerator Titanium and I was wondering if it lets the developer interact with external accessories the way expected with traditional Apple's Objective-C External Accessory Framework.
Have somebody already explored the thing?
I had used appcelerator in past but moved back to cocoa/obj-c. Appcelerator does make implementation faster for javascript developers but to use anything not provided in the appcelerator package, one needs to create their own modules etc which is a headache.
Moreover, the support for appcelerator is good only if you are in the paid support. Community help is available for free but can't help you in complicated issues requiring modules etc.
Also, appcelerator nearly always lags behind cocoa releases in terms of features, stability etc.
If you're working on a large project then my suggestion would be to stick with cocoa. If you're new to cocoa then appcelerator might be an easy path to explore to see if it fits your needs.
There are several open sourced modules, these three are done by the titanium folks and walk you through how to create your own. I can't find anything about the "External Accessory Framework" already created in a TiModule.
Is there a tool for BlackBerry java application UI development. I do not find drag and drop options in xml file in eclipse like in Android SDK. Is there something like Droid Draw here too? I am new to BB Java dev, any pointers are appreciated.
Unfortunately no... There is no designer tool for blackberry ui, it must all be done in code. I heard that RIM plans on coming out with something of the kind but there is no such tool available at the moment.
There are tutorials on how to create many of the common UI, if you are searching for something specific I'm sure you can find some sample code to get you started.